Lead Environment Management
Date: 3 Apr 2025
Location: Karachi
Company: KE
Our employees are our company's greatest asset - they are our real competitive advantage. We possesse immense power of innovation, immagination and a desire to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company's mission.
Purpose:
This position is responsible for overseeing the company’s environmental performance, including assistance in developing and implementing environmental policies, ensuring compliance with regulations, monitoring environmental impact, and leading environmental initiatives. This position also assists the Head of CHSEQ in implementing lenders’ environmental and social action plan as part of KE’s Environmental & Social Technical Committee
Education:
Bachelor of Engineering (any discipline) and Master’s in Environmental Engineering or Management,
Knowledge:
- Regulatory Compliance
- Integrated Management System
- Training & Audits
- Incident Investigation
- GRI Reporting
- Due Diligence
- Certified Trainer and Lead Auditor
Experience:
Minimum 10 years of related experience
Area of Responsibilities:
Environmental & Social Impact Assessment (Planning Phase)
- Oversee the entire process from engaging consultant to baselining, scoping, consultations, draft review, and submission of final report to the respective Agency (EPAs) with mandatory documents.
- Finalize presentations, represent KE in Personal & Public Hearings and Expert Committee Meetings, and provide response to queries raised by the public, experts and other stakeholders.
- Follow-up for project clearance; Review and acceptance of approval conditions.
- Participate in external events, conferences and legislation review meetings organized by EPAs.
Environmental & Social Management (Construction Phase)
- Ensure compliance with approval conditions and site-specific Environmental and Social Management Plans (ESMP) during construction.
- Oversee entire process from engaging consultant, trainings, compliance data reporting, site visits, review of draft, and submission of compliance reports as per required frequency to EPAs.
- Review of EPA’s notices/ letters, represent KE in Personal Hearings and provide response to queries. Facilitate EPA officials in site visits to observe compliance status/ site restoration.
- Finalize and submit ESMP Construction completion report with mandatory documents and undertaking, and acquire NOC for operation phase.
Environmental Monitoring (Operation Phase)
- Ensure compliance with Sindh Environmental Quality Standards (SEQS) at KE power plants for priority parameters. Also ensure compliance with EPA’s NOC clauses related to operation phase.
- Oversee the entire process from engaging labs, results analysis, review of draft, and timely submission of monitoring reports to EPA and plant management.
- Review of EPA’s notices/ letters and submit response. Represent KE in Personal Hearings, provide response to their queries and facilitate EPA’s visit to the plants.
Environmental Sustainability Manual & Procedures
- Review and update Environmental Sustainability Management System (ESMS) Manual in line with international standards and best practices.
- Regularly review and update corporate environmental procedures, legal register and risk register.
- Develop annual environmental objectives, provide technical assistance and implement ESMS in coordination with departmental heads in all BUs.
- Facilitate BUs in managing their external environmental affairs and report to the regulators.
Environmental Trainings
- Conduct Training Need Assessment (TNA) and develop an annual Environmental Training plan.
- Review and finalize modules for the intended audience with exercises and assessment papers.
- Finalize training report with analysis for dissemination among participants and respective Heads.
- Review and approve content for awareness flyers/ campaigns/ annual reports/ external environmental awards.
Environmental Audits
- Review and update environmental audit procedure & criteria in line with best practices.
- Ensure independent and transparent audits in all business units, finalize mark sheets and ensure timely result preparation for each category.
- Oversee internal & external Environmental Audits / Green Office/ ISO 14001 certification.
- Validate environmental data for external reporting as per GRI Guidelines for Sustainability Report.
- Review and finalize Carbon Footprint / GHG Calculation & Grid Emission Factor.
Environmental & Social Due Diligence
- Ensure compliance with Contractual E&S Requirement for Local & International Lenders.
- Review TORs for engaging Lender's international Environmental & Social Consultants and evaluate Technical Proposals to conduct Environmental & Social Due Diligence (ESDD) studies.
- Facilitate Lenders international E&S Consultants through data provision, meetings, site visits, debriefing, draft report review and implementation of E&S action plan.
- Facilitate Supplementary Lenders Information Package (SLIP) preparation, approval from Lenders, compliance reporting as per regular frequency (as and when).
- Ensure any additional requirement such as technical study/ assessment is timely prepared, and recommendations implemented.
People Development
- KE wide capacity building on environment through awareness and trainings of trainers.
- Assess training needs of team members and ensure parity with regards to learning and growth opportunities.
- Team engagement through frequent feedback & career enhancement opportunities.
- Oversee performance management and career planning of direct reports.
- Create a conducive work environment to build and sustain an engaged and committed. environment team to achieve environmental objectives at organization level.
KE provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, origin, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, marital status, status with regard to public assistance or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.